Originally Posted by filtherton

How about another tricky moral question: What if you saw someone breaking into your neighbor's house, called the cops, then found out after your neighbor gets arrested that your neighbor was engaged in some illegal, yet essentially harmless, activity that ended up getting exposed because you "did the right thing?" Your neighbor goes to prison because somebody wanted to steal his/her laptop and you wanted to do the right thing. Was it worth it? Is your neighbor glad that you were looking out for them?